2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 One whose acts are recorded in the Bible (7)

5 Cuts up the meat (5)

8 You put beer in it,

Gertrude (5)

9 Waste food (7)

10 It gives you no alternative but to move in there (7)

11 Do you bring it home for breakfast? (5)

12 Switches on the illuminations (6)

14 Note Vera’s drunk the wine (6)

17 Joe gets back in the car for a smoke (5)

19 Had to go to the wharf to get a fish (7)

22 They get the sheets clean (7)

23 A sound indication that one’s wanted (5)

24 Measures one’s paces (5) 25 Land on which lots of houses are built (7)

DOWN

1 One must be blazing mad to commit it (5)

2 Opportunity to see the first performance (7)

3 Has eaten chowder with fish in it (5)

4 You can make it if you try (6) 5 Plant such as Ivy seen in the mountains (7)

6 Glasses are raised to it in the pub (5)

7 Draws back from the psychiatrists (7)

12 Keys for the cabinets (7) 13 They’re shot at so the sailors get inside (7)

15 Not live rounds, but possibly dangerous (7)

16 Although celibate, he acts dissolutely (6)

18 A girl cricketer of great fame (5)

20 Charge the society girl with it (5)

21 Spike broken from military headgear (5) COFFEE TIME ACROSS 1 Evangelist (7) 5 Hews (5)

8 Beer mug (5)

9 Fried food item (7) 10 Nor (7)

11 Cured meat (5) 12 Ignites (6)

14 Burial places (6) 17 Cheroot (5)

19 Sea fish (7) 22 Rubbers (7) 23 High-pitched radio signal (5)

24 Treads (5)

25 Landed properties (7)

DOWN

1 Fire-raising (5)

2 Orifice (7)

3 Freshwater fish (5) 4 Exertion (6)

5 Mountaineer (7) 6 Drink-dispenser (5) 7 Diminishes (7)

12 Secure cabinets (7) 13 Objectives (7) 15 Destructive (7)

16 Virtuous (6)

18 Elegance (5)

20 Charge to an account (5) 21 Military caps (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Coldstream 8 Palm 9 Cataract 10 Fiancé 11 Archer 12 Dip 13 Snare 15 Coach 17 Rod 19 Assure 21 Oyster 23 Laid down 24 Tyke 25 Poles apart

DOWN: 2 Oration 3 Demon 4 Tacked 5 Entrap 6 Morocco 7 Cache

14 Round up 16 Checker 17 Recoil 18 Doings 20 Scamp(i) 22 Set up